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''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
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A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn't got her.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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